Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that the University of Waterloo selected Mellanox EDR 100G InfiniBand solutions to accelerate their new supercomputer. The new supercomputer will support a broad and diverse range of academic and scientific research in mathematics, astronomy, science, the environment and more.

The University of Waterloo is a member of SHARCNET (www.sharcnet.ca), a consortium of 18 universities and colleges operating a network of high-performance compute clusters in south western, central and northern Ontario, Canada.
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"The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has updated their InfiniBand Roadmap. With HDR 200 Gb/sec technologies shipping this year, the roadmap looks out to an XDR world where server connectivity reaches 1000 Gb/sec...

Founded in 1999, the IBTA is chartered with maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand Architecture specification defining hardware transport protocols sufficient to support both reliable messaging (send/receive) and memory manipulation semantics (e.g. remote DMA) without software intervention in the data movement path. These transport protocols are defined to run over Ethernet (RoCE) as well as InfiniBand fabrics."
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Mellanox announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2017.

"Our first quarter InfiniBand revenues were down year-over-year, impacted by delays in the general availability of next generation x86 CPUs, seasonal trends in high-performance computing, and technology transitions occurring across several end users and OEM customers. We believe InfiniBand has maintained share in HPC, and expect revenues will see sequential growth in the coming quarters driven by current backlog and additional pipeline opportunities," said Eyal Waldman, president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies.

"Our first quarter Ethernet revenues grew across all product families sequentially, driven by the adoption
of our 25/50/100 gigabit solutions. We expect 2017 to be a growth year for Mellanox."
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'The combination of Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect solutions and Qualcomm's leading ARM-based processors enables the generation of compute and storage data centers,' said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. 'The RDMA technology and the smart cloud, storage and machine learning offloads of ConnectX-5 maximize the Qualcomm CPU efficiency and overall applications' performance. We are excited to demonstrate the ARM server platforms with Qualcomm and their readiness for data center usage.'
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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that Mellanox ConnectX-5 Open Compute Project (OCP) Ethernet adapter will enable the world's first PCIe Gen-4 OpenPOWER/OCP-based Zaius, the open server platform from Google and Rackspace. Mellanox will showcase ConnectX-5, the industry's first PCIe Gen-4 based 100Gb/s OCP Ethernet adapter at the OCP Summit, 2017.

The exponential growth of data demands not only the fastest throughput but also smarter networks. Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions incorporate advanced acceleration engines that perform sophisticated processing algorithms on the data as it moves through the network. Intelligent network solutions greatly improve the performance and total infrastructure efficiency of data intensive applications in the cloud such as cognitive computing, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT). Mellanox's ConnectX-5 supports both InfiniBand and Ethernet, and is the most advanced 10/25/50/100Gb/s intelligent adapter on the market today. Additionally, as the first adapter to support PCIe Express Gen 4.0, ConnectX-5 delivers full 200Gb/s data throughput to servers and storage platforms.
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